Wholly Quotes

630 Wholly quotes by 464 unique authors

I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to… — Beatrix Potter
He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not. — Chris Bohjalian
Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being. — Rainer Maria Rilke
My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo — Victor Hugo
It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before… — Sylvia Townsend Warner
The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future. — Epicurus
It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand. — Steven Erikson
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other. — Franz Kafka
The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but whether it have more of… — Seth Grahame-Smith
Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there… — Alain de Botton
No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him. — Dwight L. Moody
No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost. — William Golding
You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desire to possess… — James Joyce
This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a… — C.S. Lewis
It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived… — C.S. Lewis
I swear to you, Patch, to take your love and cherish it. And in return, to give you my body and my heart—everything I possess,… — Becca Fitzpatrick
When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my… — Saint Augustine
It seems wrong and unfair that Christmas, with its stressful and unmanageable financial and emotional challenges, should first be forced upon one wholly against one's… — Helen Fielding
The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless… — Russell Brand
Other stories tell how I eat innocent newborns, how I’m ten feet tall, how I breathe fire and have great dragon wings. None of these… — Derek Landy
For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I… — Saint Augustine
Are you in pain, Frodo?' said Gandalf quietly as he rode by Frodo's side. 'Well, yes I am,' said Frodo. 'It is my shoulder. The… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to… — Charles Spurgeon
If one does not make human knowledge wholly dependent upon the original self-knowledge and consequent revelation of God to man, then man will have to… — Cornelius Van Til
Did you like it?" he said. "I could have given you...jewelry, but I wanted it to be something that was wholly yours. That no one… — Cassandra Clare

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